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Creative application of textiles appears to be a new area in the home furnishing front but it is actually a tradition that goes back through time and may, in fact, be the earliest art form. Before the arrival of spinning machines, power looms and synthetic dyes, textiles were very expensive to produce. The fact that they were highly valued, preserved and collected is shown by their inclusion in household inventories. Particularly, highly prized were fabrics brought from distant places and they were regarded as heritage of the future. The robust fascination for household textiles still continue in these times, reflecting the wide attention by shoppers to their domestic environment and a renewed desire to make homes more welcoming.
Textile industry has re-invented itself recently in the household fabrics market. Despite a general fall in worldwide textile exports, household textile products such as linen and furnishing offerings are holding up well and recording increased consumption patterns over its previous years. Home Textiles industry has become rich both in terms of size and the product varieties.
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